it was not as hard as I expected…

no no, sturdy is the underlined word. the options were (1) steady (2) secure (3) durable (4) ?? forgot but surely wrong.

Passage on cat-eye thing on the roads.


in the same sentence, there was something about not being easily damaged. cant quite remember any more.

secure - not liable to fail, yiel, become displaced etc. as a support or fastening


durable - able to resist wear, decay etc. well-lasting, enduring

sturdy- strong in substance, construction or texture

For Vocab Cloze is it steady, secure or durable?


For Bees cloze, for qn on ‘stay _ of bee hives’ wad is the answer?

Math is easy. But there are many tricky qns that require you to keep a cool head and not be careless. If you’re a consistent 100-er like me, just check, check and check.

anyone knows how to write a Chinese Compo that can get 36-38 marks? i've only been getting 32-34 but not high enough. For English it seems that the longer the better BUT my chinese teacher says that I should limit to only 2 pages (without leaving lines) as I can be too luo suo. e.g. For shocked, you can just write 'liu shen wuzhu' instead of five descriptive lines.


So I'm quite confused. Write long or write short? I usually write 3-4 pages without leaving lines. Does anyone have a rubric sheet? Or just some general pointers on the charactistics of a 36-40 compo?

Thanks in advance. Please reply by Thursday so that I can prepare for PSLE on Friday.

p.s. this is a copy of post in the PSLE 10 thread so if you think it is an eyesore then delete...

anyone knows how to write a Chinese Compo that can get 36-38 marks?

thanks for all the information on T-scores but i’m concerned about grades.


From what i know it is by bell curve. But how many ppl get A* each year? The top 10%? Does it follow the marks? (A* 91%tile -100%tile A 75%tile to 90%tile)

Thanks. Because i find it quite difficult to get A* for CL especially with the exam format change.

Thanks very much snowman! Any more to give?